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Iraq’s War Disfigured Babies

Iraq’s War Disfigured Babies iSLAMoNlINE.NET By Afif Sarhan, Feb. 23, 2009 BAGHDAD— In new Iraq, women like Leila Omar Wassin are heart-broken giving birth to babies born malformed because of the deadly substances years of war have sown in their bodies.

“My first baby died after he was born without legs and the second one died few days ago because his spinal cord was exposed and his head was too big,” the 36-old woman told IslamOnline.net.

Wassim is one of the victims of the massive bombing of Fallujah in 2004, when the US army admittedly used depleted uranium munitions, which contain low-level radioactive waste……………………………

After denying it at first, the Pentagon admitted in November 2005 that white phosphorous, a restricted incendiary weapon, was used in shelling Fallujah.

It also admitted to having used more than 1,200 tons of depleted uranium munitions in Iraq during the 2003 invasion.

The plight of babies’ birth defects has exacerbated over the years, becoming a common occurrence for doctors and nurses.

“Baghdad has shown a high level of contamination,” a doctor and a researcher at a Red Crescent Hospital in Baghdad told IOL, requesting anonymity.

“In 2005, we had about 600 cases reported at public hospitals and three years latter, this number has doubled.”

Iraq’s War Disfigured Babies – IslamOnline.net – News

February 25, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, Iraq